HEIRESS LEFT PENNILESS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 164, 29 March 1939, Page 4

HEIRESS LEFT PENNILESS

MARRIED A SCOUNDREL FALSE PRETENCE CHARGE : 1 ' ' V:- ' 'V LONDON, Nov. 30.—A young and good-looking brunette, said to have inherited a fortune of £15,000, married'a man called,by a. Scotland Yard detective - scoundrel.” He left her penniless. She pleaded guilty at London sessic ns ■ ;yesterday to obtaining clothing worth ,£sl_.6s (jd by false pretences.. r- . . '/ j In the itlnck with the woipan, Mrs.p, Anile Mitchell, was an blonde, ?featricia Mallory, a model,' who pleaded guilty to the srirne.offence Both women are 23 years old. THey' absconded from a home together three days before the offeijeel \ 'lt was'stated, that.!they walked into a ! shop in’Baker street, W., and said they wapted silk gowns and coats. They toljd/the proprietor they had a luncheon appointment, left, the shop before a messenger •returned from the bank with’ a cheque which one of the \vonion o-ave marked “No Account.” ; " £*,■ < ' Procuring Drugs. " • ’ "Detective-Sergeant Percy Burgess ’said that Mitchell was 1 over at ;Bbw-’street.. on July last- and put on probation on charges of obtaining

cash and credit by false pretences. l -Mallory was sentenced to '-, four' months, second division, at Marylebone last August ■ for procuring drugs Without authority. On appeal she was bound over * and on-probation. Mr. Ashe Lincoln, barrister.,' agkcd the detective if dhe man Mitchell married was worthless. '“He was a scoundrel,” was the Yard man’s reply. ' ' . ■ Mr. Lincoln: Until she met him she was quite all right ; after having married liim she kept very bad company, in the West 'Elnd. Sergeant Burgess agreed.

Mr. Lincoln said that Mitchell, left motherless, had the .misfortune to. come into £15,000, >: and the. double misfortune to meet thejnan Mitchell. When the money was exhausted she was left alone and penniless and. started on these cheque frauds. ‘ The chairman* postponed sentence .till the next sessions, which begin on 'December 20. '•>